"Old John Robertson"

I listened to the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour recently and discovered a similarity between "Penny Lane" and the Byrds' "Old John Robertson."  In "Penny Lane," there are the lines "On the corner is a banker with a motorcar / The little children laugh at him behind his back," and the same sort of situation is described in "Old John Robertson," albeit spread across different verses.  In the first verse (repeated as the fourth), there's the line "People ev'rywhere would laugh behind his back," and the second verse specifically mentions children laughing (I think the line is "Children laughing, playing didn't know his name," but I'm not sure).

The liner notes of the CD re-issue of The Notorious Byrd Brothers briefly comment on the musical influence that the Beatles had on the album, saying that it's "dated by a handful of period-production touches that place it squarely in the immediate post-Sgt. Pepper era of future-baroque studio whimsy," but this similarity between "Penny Lane" and "Old John Robertson" seems to indicate a lyrical or thematic influence, too.  The liner notes also explain that "Old John Robertson" is based on a real-life figure from Chris Hillman's childhood, and this is similar to how "Penny Lane" is based on a location from Paul McCartney's childhood.